My life closed twice before its close, Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close— 
It yet remains to see 
If Immortality unveil 
A third event to me 

So huge, so hopeless to conceive 
As these that twice befell. 
Parting is all we know of heaven, 
And all we need of hell.

Dickinson starts this poem off with a very powerful first line, "My life closed twice before its close." This starts the reader off with a question about the speaker; does he/she really have any control over their life or death? As the poem continues, it is obvious that this is not about a physical death, but yet a spiritual death. Dickinson says in the end of the first stanza that her only third option between heaven and hell would be immortality, which is impossible as a human on this Earth. In the first line of the second stanza, the poet uses two different adjectives to describe trying to understand the Parting of Heaven and emerging into Hell; Huge and Hopeless. Dickinson is saying that being being apart from God on the Earth will lead to an eternal death of hell by saying that the Parting is all we need of hell and all we know of heaven. Dickinson uses the pause after the first line in the first stanza to just simply emphasize it. She uses the enjambment between the first and second stanza to keep the mood rolling so the reader didn't lose the powerful meaning that Dickinson is conveying in the poem. She intentionally ends the poem with the word hell, because people usually associate hell with an eternal death, and by doing so leave a clear, dominant ending to the poem.